LeRoy S. Zimmerman (born December 22, 1934) is a former

Pennsylvania Attorney General The Pennsylvania Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It became an elected office in 1980. The current Attorney General is Democrat Josh Shapiro. On August 15, 2016, then-Attorney General Kath ...

. In 2002, he was named to the

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list of politically influential individuals. He was named again in 2003 and deemed a "power broker in Central Pennsylvania." In 2010, ''Politics Magazine'' named him one of the most influential Republicans in the state.

Later career

After his term as Pennsylvania Attorney General, Zimmerman became the chairman of the

Hershey Trust Company The Hershey Trust Company is an American corporation incorporated on April 28, 1905, by Milton S. Hershey, Harry Lebkicher and John E. Snyder. The company is a minority owner of The Hershey Company and sole private owner of Hershey Entertainment ...

. He resigned at the end of 2011. In 2013,

Kathleen Kane Kathleen Granahan Kane (born Kathleen Margaret Granahan; June 14, 1966) is an American former politician and lawyer who served as the 48th Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2013 until her resignation in 2016 following her conviction for per ...

, the

, announced the conclusion of a two-year investigation into the operations of the Hershey Trust Company, in which the Office of Attorney General and the Hershey Trust Company agreed that there was a finding of no wrongdoing, but reforms were required of the trust company.

References

External links

Profile at Eckert Seamans
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